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...Vinyl and high grade-plastic gloves, which the USPS encourages but does not require, effectively prevent the spores from invading sores, cuts or tiny abrasions on workers' hands. But postal workers complain that they can't wear them all the time--the gloves make their hands...
...workers last Thursday. And he continues to play an aggressive role on their behalf. When doctors discovered last week that two Hamilton employees had suspected cases of inhalation anthrax, postal workers were told they would have to take antibiotics for a full 60 days instead of seven. The orange plastic bottles of Cipro they had been given were no longer enough. On Friday another Hamilton police car headed south, to pick up a new supply...
...center for food safety at the University of Georgia, says terrorists could lace such imports with not only botulism toxin but also other pathogens, including E. coli O157:H7, salmonella, dysentery, cyclospora and hepatitis. As if to underscore the point, investigators last week identified salmonella in two of several plastic vials of undisclosed substances included in a packet of papers sent to former President Clinton's office in Harlem, though the bacteria apparently grew naturally through fermentation and caused no harm. Still, the concerns of Thompson and his colleagues are understandable. Even without any diabolical intent, U.S. packing houses...
...Soon after the show begins, the audience is convinced there is nothing Jay can’t do with a deck of cards. Jay proves that in an inspired second-act sequence in which he treats a deck of playing cards as deadly weapons to assault a wall, a plastic duck and, in a moment of delightfully frenzied lunacy, a watermelon...
...Liberty Bell; Denver canceled its New Year's Eve celebrations; Ohio called off a corn-husking festival. In Washington, where lawmakers are quietly terrified that the terrorists mean to finish what they started on Sept. 11, officials closed 40 blocks around the Capitol to trucks and taped plastic over Senate office windows. There are enough gas masks in a room off the House chamber for each member and the floor staff, so members are told, leaving five for people in the press gallery, who number in the hundreds...